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xaxyg @lemmy.world

5mo ago

The Real Criminals

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That cop is a really good listener for a cop.
- The robber is also white...
  
  💀
  
  Cops let white people talk. The black man would've been shot on sight.
  Comic is accurate.
- For a US or French cop.
  
  It's pretty obvious that the entire comic talks specifically about the US, so I didn't think it was necessary to specify that in my comment.
  
  All cops. When lines are drawn there isn’t a police force in the world that’d stand beside you

Bonus panel. The cop just shoots him.
- Not the bonus panel we deserve, but the bonus panel we get.
  The true secret bonus panel is when the cop gets the bonus for the shooting.

Cops serve the ruling class. It's why they're trying so hard to find the CEO killer.
- Refresh your feed. They found him.
  
  Yup, I saw an hour or so ago. Very odd to conveniently still have the weapon with him as well as a manifesto.
  
  The cops can plant as much evidence on Luigi as they want, that doesn't make him The Adjuster.
- People with jobs serve their paycheck. People with authority let it go to their heads. Cops are the combination of the two.
- Praise Muad'dib!

If police and prisons made societies safer the USA would be the safest society on the planet.
- On a global scale this is probably one of the safest times in human history, and the USA is safer than most.
  
  and the USA is safer than most.
  aaaahahahahahaha. ahahahahahahaahaaaahaaaaa... ahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaa fucking hah!
  NOT funny.
  
  The US is ranked 132 out of 163 for safety worldwide. I'd say that actually makes the US one of the least safe countries on earth.
  Is it safer than living in a Roman frontier town during the Hun invasion? Probably... but the point is, clearly having the most militarized police and highest prison population doesn't make things safer.
  
  I've literally never had anybody in my life experience multiple riots, lock downs due to a crazed gunman shooting up his black neighbor and people crashing, burning and dieing in their yard probably due to drunk driving EVER, until I made some American friends. Visiting them was also a trip, fuck they're paranoid, and honestly I'm not even surprised. You people have police officers stationed at SCHOOLS for crying out loud, how more fucked can it get?!? If I was forced to live in the states I'd also go fucking crazy.
  
  I felt much safer in Japan more than I ever did in the US.
  
  You're using relativism to disprove the idea that overpolicing doesn't make us safer? My goodness!

Cop: "So anyway I started blastin"

Why would I investigate my employer? A healthy chunk of that $15B in CEO salary works its way back into the hands of officers via lobbying for increased pay/benefits, kickbacks to police unions and sheriff's society's, and direct hiring for police "consultants" and overpaid rent-a-cops.
If burglars want to enjoy these benefits, they need to get back to the old school way of doing business. Get. Mobbed. Up. You didn't see Irish cops bothering the American wing of the IRA or Italian cops hassling the mafia. Burglars need to do the same thing as the rest of the working class and get organized. One stick is easily broken. A bundle is far sturdier.
- They are mobbed up. Always have been. If you'd been to prison and followed the unwritten rules then you'd already know.

I know this is fiction
because irl a cop would not reflect on his actions.
He would just shoot & kill this man on the spot.

For the record, it's specifically CEOs of S&P 500 companies that make an average of ~18 million/yr.
https://aflcio.org/paywatch/highest-paid-ceos
The Standard and Poor's 500 is ~500 of the largest companies in the country that are publicly traded. It does not include the vast majority of CEO positions in the US, just the biggest.

Robbers are committing violent crime mostly against the working class.
Cops should go after both robbers and robber barons.

The machine works as intended.
Robbers are (allowed to be) part of it so they can take the focus, all the fingerpointing, be the big bad wolf mascot.

Some folks will rob you with a six gun, and some will rob you with a fountain pen.

How does one create this comic and completely ignore that cops stealing via civil asset forfeiture take more than cops

If only there were some way we could influence laws and how they are enforced...
- I've been saving up for some space tourism, but you're right, it's time to buy a senator. (This is sarcasm.)

There would still be people who stole if we lived in a socialist paradise. And they would still want to be called boss.

The source looks like https://linktr.ee/massesutd though the dude doesn't appear to have a website, just links to a bunch of gated websites that I can't access without an account.

Spot on!

That thief probably stole from a low to medium income family tho
- Who do you think the rich steal from?

If robbers only earn $7500 a year why on earth do they do it? Why would anyone risk arrest, jail time, criminal record, maybe even being shot by armed security or police, for such a paltry amount of money?
- Oh, because of the primary driver of most kinds of crime:
  Poverty.
  If you want to lower crime, you lower poverty, you put social safety nets in place.
  Does this solve crime 100%?
  No, but its something like one hundred to ten thousand times more cost effective than not doing that and increasing policing instead.
  ... America is a country where homeless people routinely commit bank robberies with unloaded guns and then surrender to police ... because at least then they get some level of permanent shelter, food, and health care.
- Desperation
- Because that number was totally pulled out of their butt.
- You'll notice that organized crime (ya know, as a metric of success) doesn't usually rely on robberies as their source of income. Robberies are risky and stupid.
- Also armed bank robbery is VERY heavily punished. In some places armed robbery with a gun (even a fake gun) can be punished by LIFE in prison.
  
  You and I hear life in prison, a homeless person hears shelter for life
- Because drugs.

Yanks trying to make up compound insults is, and apologies for using the word, cringe as fuck

Ah yes, let's try and justify one crime by comparing it to another one, conveniently ignoring the fact that neither are victimless. And I don't even mean the material cost, I mean the fact that the trauma of being robbed can affect a person for life. Here's a thought, how about trying to make everything black and white we can decide that multiple things can be bad, even in different amounts?
- If I've learned anything it's that nuance is lost on the internet.
  
  What did you call my mom?
- who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom...
  You're not fooling anyone. We know exactly who you are.
  
  You don't know dick. ACAB, and so are other people who cause suffering for their own profit.
- Honestly it seems the entirety of lemmy is just political extremists that will down vote any opinion that isn't in their ball park and only care about political talking points. I swear I miss reddit where I could have a feed of interesting stuff where I could scroll for 5 minutes in the toilet without seeing shit like this.
  This kind of shit is why lemmy doesn't gather mass adoption

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